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Jul 28 2012

Quelle horreur!

Syrian war of lies and hypocrisy

By Robert Fisk, Sunday 29 July 2012   Has there ever been a Middle Eastern war of such hypocrisy? A war of such cowardice and such mean morality, of such false rhetoric and such…  [more]

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Jul 28 2012

Everyone changes

I wish every church said what this church says in their bulletin …

By Jon Acuff, July 25, 2012   It’s easy to poke fun at some of the things churches say on their welcome sign. It’s easy to question…  [more]

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Jul 28 2012

Anxiety

Why Mitt screws up

By ,  Saturday, Jul 28, 2012 06:00 AM CDT   People are asking, “What’s with Mitt Romney’s trip to the London Olympics?” He has made so many gaffes that the Daily Mail’s political editor…  [more]

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Jul 28 2012

Unaccustomed to the truth

The art of religious sunbathing: giving up trying to be in control

By , Friday 27 July 2012 14.29 EDT   Rowan Williams once brilliantly compared prayer to sunbathing. “When you’re lying on the beach something is happening,…  [more]

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Jul 28 2012

A picture-perfect image of elitism

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Britain is an easy date. So how did Mitt Romney mess up so badly?

By , Friday 27 July 2012 17.00 EDT   So the big surprise in the opening ceremony is not what I expected.…  [more]

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Jul 28 2012

Are we our brothers’ keepers?

A shot in the dark

By Roger Ebert, July 26, 2012 12:57 PM   Catie and Caleb Medley went to the doomed midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises.” It was a movie they’d been looking forward to for a…  [more]

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Jul 28 2012

The red meat of military adventures

When soft power is hard

By Richard Falk, 28 Jul 2012 10:17   There has been serious confusion associated with the widespread embrace of “soft power” as a preferred form of diplomacy for the 21st century. Joseph Nye introduced…  [more]

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